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Health, Safety & Environmental Bulletin No 187

S Martin – 22 April 2010

Xmo first quarter safety review

I am pleased to confirm that we’ve had our best ever start to a new year in that we have identified 67
hazard spots/ potential incidents/near misses and have suffered no accidents or incidents resulting in
anyone being harmed. At the time of identification, we were able to mitigate 34 potential hazards
totally and reduce the risk on a further 12 (a residual risk analysis is included further down in this
bulletin).

Analysis of our historic safety statistics indicates that the first quarter of our working year is the time
when we are most likely to have an accident, hence a higher focus on health & safety than we have ever
had before.

It’s no coincidence that increasing the quality of our site inductions and pre-start job meetings,
supported by the delivery of more than 300 toolbox talks has improved our performance and reporting
to a higher level than we have achieved in any previous first quarter.

That said, I would urge you to remain alert to potential hazards, not fall asleep at the wheel and would
like to say “well done” to everyone who has identified a potential hazard and addressed it at source or
reported it – you have made a genuine difference!

The more potential hazards we identify and address at source, the less likely we (or the patrons on our
sites) will be to have an accident.

On the right is our first quarter accident
triangle which indicates a very robust base
and shows just one incident relating to
property damage on a site which we were
working; that said, it was a vehicle collision
that had nothing to do with us and was
totally beyond our control.